Join CCIU Moodle Administrator Laura Mikowychok for free, one-hour Moodle Users' Forums, live on the web! Ask your questions, share ideas with fellow teachers, and pick up tips and tricks that will have you Moodling with the best of them.
"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
the World Food Programme's website
offers students a large selection of educational online games and activities.
The games are categorized by age group. Some of the games, like Food Force, are about world hunger while
other games are more general in nature.
LearnZillion gives teachers, students, and parents free video lessons anytime, anywhere. Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard, starting with math in grades 3-9.
"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. -Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing
spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet.
-Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation.
-Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement.
- Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises.
- Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement. "
"Inkling redefines your textbook for iPad. Save money, do better, and study more efficiently-all with a book you can't wait to dive into. Curious yet? Try a free sample chapter from any title."
Studyblue is a free tool that allows users to create flashcards, quizzes, and lecture notes and share them with others. Teachers can set up a "class" and give students a code, and everyone with the code can create collaborative study materials. There are mobile phone apps that the students can use to take their flashcards and notes anywhere. They can access their files offline. StudyBlue also sends helpful test and study reminders via email and text message.
Sophia is a first of its kind online social teaching and learnign platform that provides free academic content to educators. in beta testing since March, 2011, the site lets educators supplement their teaching methods with Web 2.0 tools to craete public or private learning environments
PBS Teachers is a wonderful site with lots of resources and supplemental material for teachers to use with students. This particular link will take you directly to the STEM education resource center: Professional Development and the focus on this page is Global Climate Change Modules from PBS and NASA. However, if you look at the top of the page you can choose a specific grade band and then within that there are various content areas that can be chosen. Looks like a very interesting site with lots of resources to select from.
Educate your pupils using ARKive's many thousands of videos, images and fact files in a wide range of science, ICT, art and English projects. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage your class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art & design projects. All our photos, video clips and authenticated fact files are free and easy to use in your classroom activities and presentations.
"When a teacher is looking for a new way to teach a student, a concept, or a lesson, the chances are the best resource is another teacher. On LessonCast, teachers share ideas and resources through screencast videos called lessoncasts. The LessonCast community connects educators with classroom-proven experience and great ideas."